Web Quest

                                                            Adventure in Japan

• Introduction

     Now, you are thinking to travel Japan as a backpacker with your friends in this summer vacation. So, you have to decide where you are going to visit. You also need to search what famouse food are, where famous sightseeing spots are in Japan and so on. If you decide plan, you can enjoy your journey. However, if you don´t, you will get lost way, you spend much time to get to destination and you won`t be able to enjoy your trip. So let`t decide your plan, before you leave for Japan!

• Task

    Before you start to reserch, you should make groups. Each group should be 4 people.  Your first task is to decide which prefecture you are going to visit. You can use website and find interesting prefectures. So you must decide at least 4 prefectures which you are going to visit. After you decide prefectures, you can reserch famous  food, sightseeing spots and so on. You must find at least one food and sightseeing spot for each prefecture. and you write your itinerary. it is including route, food, sightseeing spot. So, one student research one prefecture.

• Process

     1. The first thing you have to do is to decide prefecture which you are going to visit. Japan is divided into 8 regions, Tohoku, Kantou, Hokuriku, Chubu, Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu. you discuss in your group, then you can choose one region from them.

     2. Now, you can choose prefectures which you are going to visit. Each region has 5- 8 prefectures. So you can choose at least 4 prefectures from them. Each student can resarch one prefecture. You can use website to research.

    3. Then, you can research famous food and sightseeing spots by using website, for example official homepage of each prefectures.

    4. After you decided your plan, you can write your itinerary on Microsoft Word.

    5. Meet with group menbers, give presentation to the other menbers.

    6. Complete your group trip schedule.

• Resources

Japan Guide.com - http://www.japan-guide.com/

Map of Japan -   http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/japan/

About.com -  http://gojapan.about.com/cs/articlesbytopic/a/articlesight.htm

Wa pedia -  http://www.wa-pedia.com/japan-guide/sightseeing.shtml

• Evaluation

	Beginning	Developing	Accomplished	Exenplary	Score
Region and Prefectures	not good selection	fair	acceptable	good connection
Selection Food  and sight spots	couldn´t find	found  a few	found some	found enough to satisfy
Understanding of Japan	not enough	aunderstand a little	understand	understand well
Clearness of schedule	not clear	a little difficult to see	clear enough	perfect
Discussion in group	not enough	discussed a little	discussed enough	good communication

You can also write your coment.

• Conclusion

     Now, you finished making your itinerary. I am sure you can travel in Japan smoothly without getting lost and you can enjoy your trip.

     You can also learn Japanese culture or Japanese history if you are interested in. You can use useful website and you can challenge to travel other region next time. Have a nice trip!!

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ICT Teaching and Larning

1.      Short answer

What kind of models there was mentioned and what’s their role in learning?

In this article, computer based learning, mental model, and hyper models were mentioned.

The role of computer based learning is “to support student to build deep understanding”.(1)

The role of mental model is “to influence our percepions of phenomena and our understanding”. (2)

The role of hypermodel is “conceptual models realized as computer models embedded in interactive curicula”.(3)

(1),(2),(3)(Model-Based Teaching and LearningWith BioLogicaTM:What Do They Learn? How Do They Learn? How Do We Know?

Barbara C. Buckley,1,5 Janice D. Gobert,1 Ann C. H. Kindfield,2 Paul Horwitz,1

Robert F. Tinker,1 Bobbi Gerlits,1 UriWilensky,3 Chris Dede,4 and John Willett4)

2.      My observation

When I tried simulation, I realized how greenhouse gas affects temperature. When I made amount of greenhouse gas low, temperature went down and became -9 degree. On the other hand, when I made the amount of greenhouse gas high, temperature went up and it became 19-20 degree.

When I set ice age, the amount of greenhouse gas was less than the amount of 1750 and temperature was lower than 1750. When I set today`s situation, the amount of greenhouse gas was more than the amount of 1750`s, and the temperature was higher than 1750. So, it can be said greenhouse gas has some relations with the climate.

It seems that the greenhouse gas affects the temperature. Greenhouse gas keeps infrared photon inside the atmosphere. As a result, temperature is kept high. On the other hand, if amount of infrared photon is little inside the atmosphere, temperature will decrease. But, if there isn`t any greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, people can´t live, because temperature is too low. So, some greenhouse gas is necessary for people to live. I also found that the amount of CO2 affects the amount of greenhouse gas. So people have to care about CO2. When the amount of CO2 is high, greenhouse gas also went high. So I think CO2 affects greenhouse gas.